Installation Guide does not mention WCM

[edgar]

Hi,

I notice that the Alfresco 2.0 Installation Guide does not mention the Alfresco WCM at all. Are the installation steps for Alfresco WCM described anywhere (apart from the readme file in the WCM distribution)? It would be nice if you guys could add an extra paragraph about WCM to the Alfresco Installation Guide.

I noticed that before installing WCM on the Alfresco 2.0 Community Edition I first had to run Alfresco once. Else the WCM installation complained that it could not find an existing Alfresco installation. Things like this I would like to see included in the installation guide.

cheers,

Edgar

[sirclueless]

Hi,

I have the same problem . I need a documentation for Alfresco WCM. Somenody said there will a how to do Guide for Alfresco WCM, how to create a dynamic website.

Where can I find this guide?

Thx for help

[paulhh]

It's on SourceForge as a PDF.

Cheers
Paul.

[sirclueless]

Thanks. But this guide shows only how to create a website with your example. Not how can I self create my own dynamic website. That`s what I`m looking for 😕

[edgar]

It's on SourceForge as a PDF..

The installation manual? I cannot find it on SourceForge. The only document I see there about WCM is the Alfresco WCM Evaluation Guide which does not mention anything about installing Alfresco WCM.

The question I posed was about installation instructions for Alfresco WCM.

[garpinc]

How do you install WCM on a pre-existing Liferay/Alfresco 2.0.0 DMM installation…

Alfresco 2.0.0 is installed as a web application (i.e: not portlet) in tomcat application server currently.

[steve]

Hi,

here is the contents of the file called 'README_wcm.txt' that is contained in the WCM bundle:

Alfresco Web Content Management Enabler
—————————————

To enable Web Content Management in Alfresco, you need to install the
Virtualization server and configure WCM to bootstrap.  The WCM enabler
is distributed in a ZIP or tar.gz file that needs to be extracted in the
Alfresco home directory (e.g. C:\Alfresco or /opt/alfresco).  The
distribution includes virtual-tomcat and related scripts for the WCM
Virtualization server.  If your unzip program asks about directories
already existing, you are safe to allow this, as only new files are
provided.


Installing WCM Bootstrap
————————

Once unzipped, the wcm-bootstrap-context.xml file needs to be moved to
the Alfresco extension directory:
- for Tomcat, this is usually tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension
- for JBoss, this is usually jboss/server/default/conf/alfresco/extension

Restart the Alfresco server for the bootstrap to take effect.  You will
see information about the success of the bootstrap in the logs.


WCM Functionality
—————–

You should now find 2 additional spaces in your Alfresco repository:
- Web Projects in Company Home
- Content Forms in Data Dictionary

If you wish to use the Website Preview feature, you will need to start
the Alfresco Virtualization server:
- on Windows run virtual_start.bat
- on Linux run sh virtual_alf.sh start

[garpinc]

That document does not explain the steps to specify the alfresco home dir. I deployed alfresco war on tomcat. What is the alfresco home directory in this case.

[jcox]

If you're referring to where a user's home dir is within the
alfresco space hierarchy, you do that when you create the
user.

If you mean the dir.root property that determines where
the backing store is held within the native OS file system,
then have a look at the following wiki page:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Developer_Runtime_Configuration

-Jon

[jgoth]

I'm having the same issue - maybe I can reword…

The WCM download expects that Alfresco was installed using the Windows or Linux installer.  That is, if overlays the files on the expected directory structure the installer creates.

However, what do you do if you manually installed Alfresco?  That is, I downloaded the WAR and installed to an existing Tomcat/MySQL instance. 

I understand the wcm-bootstrap-context.xml goes in the class path for the shared class loaded (for me /opt/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension), but are there any other files (.jar's, .war's etc.) that need to be deployed to an existing Tomcat instance from the archive?

Thanks.

Jason